SOUTH AFRICA: Rising Opposition

For two uneasy weeks, white South
Africans had tried not to notice the ugly constitutional squabble
between Prime Minister Daniel Malan and South Africa's Supreme Court
(TIME, March 31 et seq.). While the country celebrated 'the 300th
anniversary of the landing at Cape Town of South Africa's first white
settlers, government and opposition kept political truce. Last week the
truce was over.

In Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists
shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one
of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to
defend the court, if necessary by force. "You...